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Reconfiguring the Primavera: Battistina Appiano as patron.(Critical essay)
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The Primavera (Fig. 1) is one of the few surviving secular paintings from the Renaissance era for which we have no documented patron. Its iconography has frequently been analyzed in the hope that it may provide a possible link to the patron. Diverse interpretations have ranged from a calendric explanation to a lesson in Neoplatonic philosophy. (1)
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Scholars have assumed that the Primavera was commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici because Vasari first noted the painting, in a Medici villa previously owned by Lorenzo and his ...
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Lightning Rod.(Japan's foreign minister Makiko Tanaka)
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; ...local lords to prevent them from "meddling" in state affairs. After the Meiji Restoration, noblemen led by Baron Aritomo Yamagata undermined elections with a law that barred politicians from making personnel appointments in ministries. The rules...
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; ...Achenbach, landscape painter, 1905; Carlos I, King of Portugal, and the Crown Prince, assassinated 1908; Prince Aritomo Yamagata, Japanese military commander and prime minister, 1922; Piet Mondrian, abstract painter, 1944; Buster (Joseph...
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...declare independence from China. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.- Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Saturday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...billion line of credit to Brazil. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.- Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...a remote Hindu temple in India. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Wednesday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...with seven more arrests made. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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